Staff Data Engineer - Data Intelligence - Realtime Analytics Platform

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Real-time Analytics Platform Team in the Data Intelligence Camp. You'll architect, build, and optimise a pioneering platform that will enable high-performance analysis across billions of data points, powering embedded analytics throughout our product suite and helping product teams deliver impactful insights directly to our customers. You'll work at the intersection of big data, performance engineering, and product development.

As part of this team of amazing humans, 

You will 

• Architect for scale and performance: Design and implement data platforms that support querying across billions of rows with sub-second latency, while maintaining cost efficiency
• Drive platform evolution: Lead technical decisions that shape our next-generation analytics capabilities, balancing performance, security, and developer experience
• Partner with product teams: Collaborate closely with product engineers to understand their analytics needs and build solutions that enable innovative customer experiences
• Champion technical excellence: Drive standards and continuous improvement in a high performing team, setting and meeting a high bar of engineering quality 
• Mentor and grow talent: Guide junior engineers through technical challenges, architecture decisions, and career growth opportunities

You have 

• Proven technical leadership: Track record of designing and implementing data solutions at scale, preferably in customer-facing environments
• Infrastructure expertise: Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred) including compute, storage, and networking optimisations for data-intensive applications
• Data warehouse expertise: Extensive experience with columnar and/or real-time analytics databases like ClickHouse and Redshift, including performance tuning, query optimisation, and scaling strategies
• Modern data engineering experience: Hands-on expertise with modern data processing frameworks, ETL/ELT patterns, observability, and governance tools
• Customer-centric mindset: Experience translating business and user needs into technical solutions that deliver measurable impact

You are

• Self-motivated and able to work independently, comfortable dealing with ambiguity when necessary. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work effectively and ask for support when required.
• An advocate for the work of your team. You understand that building the platform is only half the job, and that listening to users and driving adoption is essential to success. 
• Energised by growing others and helping them to reach their potential. 
• Someone who loves collaboration - our teams are cross functional and you’ll be working with other engineers, team leads and product managers to deliver great outcomes together.
• Aligned with our values, check them out here: https://www.cultureamp.com/company#values and demonstrate them through your working practice.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it. 

 

 

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

 

Culture Amp will retain your CV & personal information for a period of two years (four years for the US) from the date of your application process completion. Culture Amp may contact you in relation to future job opportunities during this time period. For further information please see our privacy policy here or contact privacy@cultureamp.com.